Raising the Bar for Nonprofit Boards

Nonprofit boards versus for-profit boards, and the idea that the two are distinctly different doesn’t resonate with Len Schlesinger, a professor at Harvard Business School and former president of Babson College. Having served as a corporate general manager as well as a member of nonprofit, public, and private company boards, he finds that sector alone does not yield the most useful comparison when looking at board performance. In Len’s words, “There are good boards and lousy boards in both sectors.”